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se “Va JUST DUCK INTO THe CLOSET AN’ GIVE THA OLD hh ACHANCE TA THINK 'M GONE. HE'S GETTIN CLASSY, WANTING Ta ‘co. TA ALL THA Games with ME- ICANT ste tT STUFF HE'S THET FOOL,00G HER CHAWED UP ALL O My Vou JEST Lock uP! Goin' to! 4, the chief and South- Done by the Clubs of the): Country for the Fitzsimmons: | Dempsey Fight for the First) cumpic civ or New Orieare went tho World’s Middleweight Cham ‘itan $00 better, and the Long Island anization immediately came back ith @ purse of $5,600. ‘This offer Demp- oach, the well-kr Pionship and How the Prize|rey accepted, but nothing was heard | | evens Fitzsimmons. Then both clu Went to the Olympic Club of |raisea tne price to $7,000, but stilt noth m Fitzsimmons. A repres i New Orleans. Olympte Club named Frank York with instruc ne his own ture to a con- but to get his sig No. Copyright . 39.— Bob Fitzsimmons. 1001. fy The New} TORIES” of the Janky figiter from Australla be- | to $11,000, and the Puritan offered $12,000 gan to cireulate around among | But Fitzsimmons absolutely refused to fans all over the United | Sight in the East, so the prize went to began to clamor|the Olympic Club of New Orleans, eat Demp. | Which had already, through Frank's omer, a demand whigy {eorts, secured a contract with Demp- a demand which | sey, Jack went down to New Orleans istered by the Callfor- jand signed articles and then returned ae his preliminary training. he Purltan Club offered $10,000, and in twelve hours the Olympic raised iveston, Fitzsim- eans after Demp- th. He 1901. “ Fitz Changes His Style. In preparing for this fight Fitestm- mons made radical changes in hi of fighting. Because of the fa: many of the fighters he had met we outclassed and because he was com- pelled to hold his punches in his boxing and sparring stunts, Bob had acquired he habt pring and siapp which I made ahead of him in it. Each time he wit- nessed @ new bag-punching stunt he would go off by himself the trick unt! he had mast In this way Fitgsimmons skill with the bag that made him one of the most wonderful bag-punchers in America, At Bay St. Louls Bob de- voted a great déal of attention to this He also kept up his running, ‘and in hig box- d to discard the g hablt and perfect the art of stralght-from-the-shoulder hit- a acti Bos practices une reat WE MASTEKED tv ele admirers of Fitzsimmons. Mons gave exhibitions through the | South and West, and everywhere cre- ated a favorable impression. Fitzsim- | art. ining camp were Enelish his manager; Prof, The Angler is usually a wise man and knows that he might as well leave his “bait” behind as to start without a bottle of Si Robt BURNETT é Gis London DRY Gin First distilled at Vauxhall, London, in 1770. ‘ _ Sir Robert Burnett & Company 632-634 W. 34th St. New York bid to $10,900, They again raised this | t ‘bag his eyes were ‘opened in pur-) prise. He knew quite a Dit about that art but found the Americans orn | Hema began. | Robertson and Doo O'Connell, The camp yn, and visitors deligh a boy does in showing off a new top. Dempsey Heavy Favorite. In my article on D T sald tha m had had a chance to and espectally after D him in New Orleans, who stayed at home and all through- heavy favorite—that ts, except C [nia which was solid for Fitzsim \E “WELL JACK, may THE BEST MAN WIN" The great amo tof pu the man who had #0 long | | and 8 sfuly defended his title: | Qodew exquise da parfum | Dempse the fair, square, game little | Irishman, M4 pounds, the w place in the ring five minut The Pact that most good dresser for your buying your hat your straw. $3 quality at 1379 Broadway 811 Broadway 639 Broadway NEWARK: 38 Park plishment as | In the is was true en the sports | ap re both at the exhibition benefit ‘siven | But with the fans | the y, the hero; Dempsey tipped the scale Alfred H, Smith ¢ wearing our straws should be sufficien: style reason 5 The straws themselves are sufficient guide as to quality. You can’t go wrong by going right to our nearest store for You get the usual $ Panama Sale $5.00 $7.50 $10.00 Ecuador Ecuador Ecuador Panamas, Panamas, Panamas, $3.75 $5.00 $6.00 Sth Ave. & 42d Street 299 Broadway BROOKLYN: 203 Broadway 44 Nassau Street 823 Broad Street, South at 147% pounds, while Bob sent tt up to| $1,0 eae ance for and other Kas California — conting 8, put up t t |p tor put up the f mut the Chief of Police low any betting in the so, as it turned out, Dwyer saved his isand, | Aw the men came to the centre of the out the country Jack Dempsey was @| ring and shook hands, Fitzsimmons sald Wi |to Dempse: sald to | Carroll, | for a while yet, any? how." | Fitzsimmons has been aeverely cen- | for battling a man in Dempsey's 4 | would have been able to stave off de- feat even when he was in his prime. (The next chapter deals with Fitssim- mons.) —— Insane Woma tal Leap. y of the bullding. She picked up. Her home w Djer- Kise est fe secret de a Coxkolf Paria Aaque, IRAN op | Extract, Sachet, £ ‘At Drur and Departme Saloum £ Ponder | es everywhere id St. Ne ¥. S are of us. 401 Fulton Street R ‘St 722 Broadway Bridget Forarty, forty years | 014, seven years an inmate of the| | Manhattan State Hospital for the In- | sane » Ward's Island, committed sul-! cide yesterday by Jumping to the stone | Every Thing for Every Room , Low Prices Marked in Plain Figures | On Everything in Every Department J udgment of Distance :. Essential in Boxing Game —_.>— | East Sider Working Hard to Regain Ability to Hit Out Straight. Ho has been promised bouts with Matt Wella, the English champlon; Abe At- tell, the American featherweight chaim- pion, and also another go with Ad Wolgast, the American Ughtweleht champton, if he turna the tables on Murphy this time, and another whtp- ping !s apt to mean that all of these contests will be forfeited. Can you blame kK. O. for warking big head off? ‘There wil be twenty-two “white hopes" to be looked over at the tourna- ment echeduled for the National @port- is Club on Friday night. Among the umber are two unknowns selected by k Johnson's former manager, Sig art. (Hart @aye he has tratned them eapectally_to take advantage of John- ———————_—_— HAT IXnockout Brown realizes that his battle against Tommy Murphy | 4s the turning point in his boxing career ts evidenced by the manner tn which he is training at Savin Roc nn. He {9 working harder for this natch than for any other he has over | ‘Three sparring partnere are used datly | in the efforts to have the Little Dutch. man in At condition for the affray, Chick y, Dodo Maher and Otto Brown he boys who are being used to have| @ADWAY@ READY RELIRS eee RHEUMATISM re bos ng th y and, n mp, the lads are wishing that the Apply Radway’s Ready Relief externally | training was over, as K. 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